Incompressible Flow

This is the leading textbook on the market for graduate level fluid mechanics courses covering viscous and non-viscous flow. Incompressible flow is a required course in preparation for subsequent courses on turbulence and stability. The third edition retains the format and philosophy of the first two editions which in one reviewer's words make it the most teachable book on the market. The presentation starts with basic principles followed with a patient development of the mathematics and physics leading to theories of fluids supported with examples and problem exercises. · continuum mechanics · thermodynamics · vector calculus and index notation · kinematics of local fluid motion · basic laws. · newtonian fluids and the navier-stokes equations · some incompressible flow patterns · dimensional analysis · compressible flow · incompressible flow · some solutions of the navier-stokes equations · stream functions and the velocity potential · vorticity dynamics · flows at moderate reynolds numbers · asymptotic analysis methods · characteristics of high-reynolds-number flow · kinematic decomposition of flow fields · ideal flows in a plane · axisymmetric and three-dimensional ideal flows · boundary layers · low-reynolds-numbers flows · lubrication approximation · surface tension effects · microscale effects · introduction to stability and transition · introduction to turbulent flow